Salazar Packaging

Early in my packaging career I made a very good living selling plastic films. I sold just about every type of plastic packaging film including shrink, stretch, bagging and bundling films. Then around year 2000 there was a new focus on environmental sustainability, and packaging, especially plastics, were blamed for most of the planet’s ills. How to fix plastic packaging probl...

Many professional sports teams have coined a new popular phrase called “Self-Scouting.” Essentially it just means that teams/organizations are realizing the overwhelming importance of analyzing what they are doing in order to best find their strengths, weaknesses, areas for growth/improvement etc. Successful businesses do this in some form or fashion, realizing that it’s not ...

If you were to ask any corrugated mill, sheet plant, distributor, broker, or designer what their biggest customer complaint is, they’d probably all say: Customers who ask for a custom box quote before they need it. You may not realize (and hey, there’s no reason why you should) how much time goes into preparing a price quotation for a custom corrugated box. Manufacturing cost...

In today’s ecommerce-driven world, many companies are trying to find the balance between brand identity and the importance of consumer privacy. This (in general) applies less to, pet supply, food, beverage, toy, and craft products, and more so to personal care, pharmaceutical and high-end luxury items that require more discretion for a number of reasons. End-users don’t neces...

An 8% price increase on all corrugated board and other paper products was announced last week. Whether your business is a small start-up or a well-established large company, packaging increases are difficult to absorb. If you are a manufacturer, the cost of raw materials usually trickles upwards, and they are literally just the cost of doing business. If you import the produc...